Dance Composition: A Practical Guide to Creative Success in Dance Making

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ISBN: 9780878301973 | 0878301976
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Copyright: 12/7/2004

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Dance composition - the discipline that translates ideas into dances - is an important part of dance education. For over twenty years, Dance Composition has been the leading guide to creative success in dance making, useful to everyone interested in dance composition, at both high school and college levels. This revised and updated edition includes a new chapter exploring creative processes in relation to composing dances.

Preface

Introduction

Dance Composition

(10)

Dancing and composing dances

Dance as art

The nature of composition

The material elements

Methods of construction

The nature of dance composition

Teaching dance composition

Section 1

The Material Content - Movement and Meaning

(9)

The basic language of movement

Analysing the language

Choice of content

Literal movement into dance content

Exploring a range of movement

Movement and meaning

Section 2

Methods of Construction 1 the Beginnings

(11)

Stimuli for dance

Types of dances

Treatment of material to make representational or symbolic dance movement

Improvisation - selection of starting movement for a dance

Methods of Construction 2 Motif into Composition

(15)

What is a motif?

Development and variation of a motif

Repetition as a constructional element

Types of motif

Methods of Construction 3 Motif into Composition for a Group

(12)

The group as an expressive element

Motif, development and variation

The time aspect

The space aspect

Methods of Construction 4 The Dance Form

(7)

Motif into phrases

Types of form

Methods of Construction 5 Elements of Construction

(7)

Motifs

Repetition

Variation and contrasts

Climax or highlights

Proportion and balance

Transition

Logical development

Unity

Methods of Construction 6 Style

(8)

Understanding the term 'style'

Factors affecting the style of a dance

How to stylise a dance

Methods of Construction 7 Improvisation in the Process of Composition

(12)

Meaning of terms

Improvisation and exploration: free and limited improvisation

Improvisation: improvisation in framework compositions

Guiding improvisation visually

Improvisation as process in composition

Role of evaluation in improvisation

Methods of Construction 8 Alternative and Experimental Approaches in Dance Composition

(19)

Meaning of terms

Alternative movement contents and eclectic trends

Themes and reading of themes

Alternative and experimental approaches to dance composition

Section 3

Resource-based Teaching/Learning in Dance Composition and New Technologies

111

(24)

Resource-based teaching/learning

A CD Resource

Pack and teaching/learning dance composition

Section 4

The Creative Process in Dance Composition

135

(17)

The creative process

Phases in creativity

An example

Phase 1 impulse to create

Phase 2 working with the medium

Phase 3 realising the final form

Phases 4 and 5 performance and evaluation

Summary and conclusion

Section 5

Standing Back from the Process: the Composer's Freedom

152

(18)

Imagination and intuition

Knowing and feeling

Evaluations

Conclusion

Section 6

Practical Assignments for Students

170

(35)

References

205

(3)

Contact Information

208

(1)

Index

209

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Dance Composition: A Practical Guide to Creative Success in Dance Making

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